High Wind, Alaska Peninsula
- When
- December 14, 4:00 PM AST to December 15, 12:15 PM AST
- Where
- Alaska Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in Alaska, December 14 to 15, 2000
A moderate 972 mb low 180 miles south of Cape Sarichef Thursday afternoon moved into western Bristol Bay Friday, curving west toward Saint Paul Island early Saturday where it began to weaken. Gusty southeast winds were observed along the east semicircle of the low.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS AFC wrote it up.
A moderate 972 mb low 180 miles south of Cape Sarichef Thursday afternoon moved into western Bristol Bay Friday, curving west toward Saint Paul Island early Saturday where it began to weaken. Gusty southeast winds were observed along the east semicircle of the low. Winds along the south and southeast side of the low were also quite gusty and reached high wind criteria along the Alaska Peninsula. Cold Bay recorded the first gust of 60 + mph on the 3:53 pm observation...peaking at 68 mph on the 8:53 pm report. Winds at the site diminished below 60 mph by 10:53 pm. Sand Point registered wind gusts above 60 mph from 10:55 am to 12:15 pmFriday, peaking at 63 mph between 10:55 and 11:15 am. Across the Pribilofs, wind gusts of 59 mph were reported just after midnight Thursday at Saint Paul Island. Gusts near 60 mph were also reported at Saint George Island between 11pm and midnight Thursday. Known equipment bias indicates that gusts reached warning thresholds.The front associated with this low moved into the northern part of Bristol Bay and central Kodiak Island by 9 am Friday, weakening from Nunivak Island to the Barren Islands at 9 pm Friday. Brisk easterly winds preceded the front. Gusts of 60 + mph began at Sitkinak after 1 am Friday, peaking at 100 mph at 6 am, then subsiding to less than 60 mph with frontal passage just after 8 am Friday. Peak winds at the Kodiak Coast Guard base reached 47 mph Friday morning.
Event by event
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Pribilof Islands
- When
- December 14, 10:00 PM AST to December 15, 3:00 AM AST
- Where
- Pribilof Islands forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind, Kodiak Peninsula
- When
- December 15, 1:00 AM AST to 12:00 PM AST
- Where
- Kodiak Peninsula forecast zone
- Measured
- 87 kt (100 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
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The same day elsewhere
- Blizzard in Idaho, December 14 to 15, 2000
- Avalanche in Utah, December 14, 2000
- High Wind in Washington, December 14 to 15, 2000
- High Wind in Oregon, December 14, 2000
- High Wind in Oregon, December 14, 2000
- High Wind in Washington, December 14 to 15, 2000
- High Wind in Oregon, December 14, 2000
- High Wind in Washington, December 14, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Maine, December 14, 2000
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, December 14, 2000
- Winter Weather in Vermont, December 14, 2000
- Winter Weather in New York, December 14, 2000
More
Every storm in Alaska in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 2000
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5160452, 5160453, 5160454.